| TABLE OF CONTENTS. |
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| I. | [CHEMISTRY, METALLURGY, ETC.--New Analogy betweenSolids, Liquids, and Gases.] |
| [Hydrogen Amalgam.] |
| [Treatment of Ores by Electrolysis.--By M.KILIANI.] |
| II. | [ENGINEERING, AND MECHANICS.--Electric Railway atVienna.--With engraving.] |
| [Instruction in Mechanical Engineering.--Technicaland trade education.--A course of study sketched out.--By Prof.R.H. THURSTON.] |
| [Improved Double Boiler.--3 figures.] |
| [The Gardner Machine Gun.--With three engravingsshowing the single barrel, two barrel, and five barrelguns.] |
| [Climbing Tricycles.] |
| [Submarine Explorations.--Voyage of theTalisman.--The Thibaudier sounding apparatus.--With map, diagrams,and engravings.] |
| [Jamieson's Cable Grapnel.--Withengraving.] |
| [A Threaded Set Collar.] |
| III. | [TECHNOLOGY.--Wretched Boiler Making.] |
| [Pneumatic Malting.--With full description of themost improved methods and apparatus.--Numerous figures.] |
| [Reducing and Enlarging Plaster Casts.] |
| [Stripping the Film from GelatineNegatives.] |
| IV. | [ELECTRICITY.--Non-sparking Key.] |
| [New Instruments for Measuring Electric Currentsand Electromotive Force.--By MESSRS. K.E. CROMPTON and GISBERTKAPP.--Paper read before the Society of Telegraph Engineers.--Withseveral engravings.] |
| [When Does the Electric Shock BecomeFatal?] |
| V. | [ART AND ARCHÆOLOGY.--Robert Cauer's Statuteof Lorelei.--With engraving.] |
| [The Pyramids of Meroe.--With engraving.] |
| VI. | [ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY.--The Red Sky.--Causeof the same explained by the Department of Meteorology.] |
| [A Theory of Cometary Phenomena.] |
| [On Comets.--By FURMAN LEAMING, M.D.] |
| VII. | [NATURAL HISTORY.--The Prolificness of theOyster.] |
| [Coarse Food for Pigs.] |
| VIII. | [BOTANY, HORTICULTURE, ETC.--Forms of Ivy.--Withseveral engravings.] |
| [Propagating Roses.] |
| [A Few of the Best Inulas.--Withengraving.] |
| [Fruit Growing.--By P.H. FOSTER.] |
| IX. | [MEDICINE, HYGIENE, ETC.--A People withoutConsumption, and Some Account of Their Country, the CumberlandTableland. --By E.M. WIGHT.] |
| [The Treatment of Habitual Constipation.] |
| X. | [MISCELLANEOUS.--The French Scientific Station atCape Horn.] |
| XI. | [BIOGRAPHY.--The Late Maori Chief, MeteKingi.--With portrait.] |
